Reassign assets without altering menus and buttons

I created a DVD that contained too much data to fit on a 4.7 disc however I didn't notice this until after my menues were perfect and each button did exactly what I wanted it to do.
Now I'm in the process of compressing my original movie so that it will fit on a 4.7 gB disc however I want to know if I will be able to easily import my new assets and get them assigned to the correct buttons and menus and such
easy being...will it be a matter of simply resetting the targets to the new assets. OR will I be better off just starting a new project. I don't want to waist my time resetting all my targets if it isn't going to work. If anyone has had experience with this...I'd love to hear about it.

Hi:
Did you encode your audio to Dolby 2.0 AC3? That will give you extra space ! (probably you did it).
You can just name your new encoded files with same name that the old ones and replace them in the same drive location (I assume the new encoded files will have exact same lenght than the originals). It's not a bad idea to keep a copy of the original files, but rename them and hide them to DVDSP. Sometimes DVDSP is very smart finding the original files . . . no matter where you copy them !
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